patent examiners throughout the PPH network and the relatively myopic tendencies of patent examiners, resulting in …This presentation explores the effect that work-share agreements amongst patent offices around the globe have on the … Patent Prosecution Highway, and analyze the effect that such work-share programs have on the validity of patents issued …

public both directly and in terms of reduced access. During the COVID-19 pandemic, aggressive patent assertion may be a …, and personal protective equipment. For these reasons, pandemic-related patent law is an issue which the European …. This Article focuses on how the U.S. patent system can promote the public interest and global public health in the context …

This paper examines the role of patent policy in the open economy. It begins by considering how the presence of patents … affects trade in patentable products. A brief review of the general argument for patent protection is followed by … consideration of the elements that comprise a patent system, and which determine "patent strength". Attention is then given to how …